Frank, Lenny Abrahamson’s eccentric but pleasingly bleak portrait of life in an indie band, is a stark reminder that just because something looks broken, doesn’t necessarily mean it is. It’s a lesson that it takes aspiring keyboardist and songwriter, Jon (Domhnall Gleeson), who we meet as he’s walking home Continue Reading
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I am an extrovert gay man living in Sydney who loves Indian food, current affairs, music, film and reading, caramel anything, and a beautiful guy called Steve who makes every day a delight. I am trying to get two novels in a trilogy ready for e-publication, love my iPhone & iPod, and am secretly Canadian in my soul. Life is fun, exciting and joyful and I aim to make the absolute most of it!
Madame Tutli-Putli: A pleasingly unusual companion short film to Snowpiercer
SNAPSHOT Snowpiercer based on the French graphic novel “Le Transperceneige,” is set in a future where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an Ice Age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snow Piercer, a train that travels around the globe Continue Reading
Cool. Cool cool cool – Community renewed for a sixth season!
The dream of #sixseasonsandamovie lives! After sailing far too close to oblivion for any fan’s tastes, thanks to Hulu’s last minute decision not to carry Community as the June 30 deadline approached when all of the cancelled show’s actors were to be released from their contracts, the series, set at Continue Reading
He’s here … and he’s gone! New teaser trailer for Doctor Who season 8
Now THIS is a teaser trailer! It doesn’t so much intrigue, although naturally of course it is because we are insatiably curious creatures – cats have nothing on us, even the time travelling ones – and will ponder and dissect anything we are given about a show we love, Continue Reading
Seeing is believing: Heading Into the Storm
SNAPSHOT In the span of a single day, the town of Silverton is ravaged by an unprecedented onslaught of tornadoes. The entire town is at the mercy of the erratic and deadly cyclones, even as storm trackers predict the worst is yet to come. Most people seek shelter, while Continue Reading
You want The Walking Dead to have an ’80s sitcom-style intro? You got it!
How much do I love The Wil Wheaton Project? Quite a bit, and I would like it a whole lot more if syfy Australia could find a way to begin screening it in Down Under. Until that happens though, I will be content with these gems that keep dropping Continue Reading
Hijacking a soul: The chilling premise of BBC America’s new TV series Intruders
SNAPSHOT The series is about a secret society devoted to chasing immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others. Jack Whelan (John Simm), a former LAPD cop with a troubled and violent history, finds the quiet idyllic life he has crafted with his wife, Amy (Mira Sorvino) shattered Continue Reading
HOME! is where Boov are … and you WILL like it greatly (new trailer)
SNAPSHOT When Earth is taken over by the overly-confident Boov, an alien race in search of a new place to call home, all humans are promptly relocated, while all Boov get busy reorganizing the planet. But when one resourceful girl, Tip (Rihanna, who also contributes a song) manages to Continue Reading
Falling Skies: “Ghost in the Machine” (S4, E1 review)
BOOM! That shockingly loud sound you hear is TNT’s Falling Skies taking a turn for the darker, tilting, nay falling with breakneck speed towards storylines so gritty and apocalyptic that it finally feels like you are in the midst of a good, honest-to-God, full-blown catastrophic alien invasion. Gone are Continue Reading
Now this is music: 5 great songs I discovered via In the Flesh (season 2)
One of the most gripping, fresh-voiced and emotionally authentic shows to have emerged in the arguably crowded zombie genre in the last couple of years has been BBC3’s In the Flesh, a series that looks at the way in which society reacts when the undead apocalypse, known in this Continue Reading